In the early 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program, at California State University, Fresno, and initiated the Cal-Arts Feminist Art Program, along with fellow artist and faculty member Miriam Schapiro. Chicago uses these and other personal experiences and historical events as the basis of her critique of studio art education.
In Conversation and SongThursday, March 13, 2014 at 7 p.m.Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Poet Sonia Sanchez and musician Bernice Johnson Reagon talk about their experience as activists and share words and music from the Civil Rights Movement. Don’t miss this special evening presented in celebration of the opening week of the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.

Tickets are $20, include Museum general admission, and can be purchased at www.museumtix.com. Free for Museum Members; to reserve, call the Membership Hotline at (718) 501-6326 or email Membership.

In Conversation: Civil RightsSunday, March 16, 2014 at 2 p.m.Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
How does history animate and empower the social movements changing the world today? Civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talk about the Civil Rights Movement, putting it into historical perspective and connecting it to a new generation of social media activism. Presented in celebration of the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.

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